Emil fisher



E. FISHER.

HANGING LAMP.

(No Model.)

No. 373,280. P'atented Nov. 15

N PETERS, Pnm-mhogn fiqr- Washington I16.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL FISHER, CF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BRADLEY 8t HUBBARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HANGING LAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming-part of Letters Patent No. 373,280, dated November 15, 1887.

Application filed July 12,1856. Serial No. 207,730. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMIL FISHER, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvemeat in Hanging Lamps; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich 10 said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a side View of the frame, showing asection of the shade; Fig. 2, the hooked end of the frame enlarged.

[5 This invention relates to an improvement in that class of hanging lamps in which the frame carries a single lamp, the frame being of substantially U shape, with the suspendingchains attached to the upper ends, and such 2c as are commonly known as harp-lamps, the object being to dispense with the shade ring which is usually employed as a connection between the frame and the chains, and also as a means for securing the shade, and whereby the cost of manufacture is very materially reduced; and theinvention consists in constructing the frame with a hook-like projection adapted to embrace the upper edge of the neck, combined with a set-screw below to bear against the shade and secure it in the said projection, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the illustration, Figs. 1 and 2, I represent the frame A as made plain, or it may be bent from a strip of metal into the required shape and provided with a support, B, at the bottom of the lamp-fount.

C represents the shade. The two sides of the frame extend up withi and above the top of the shade, and at a point 40 above the shade an outward projection, a, is

formed, extending outside the neck of the shade and bent or returned inward to form an engaging-hook, b, to grasp the shade beneath its outwardlyprojecting upper edge or neck. Through the frame below the outward 5 projection, a, is a set-screw, d, opposed to the hooked termination of the projection, and so that, the screws being loosened, the frame may bepasscd up through the shade until the hooked projections are above the shade, and then drawn down to bring the hooks b below the flange orinto the neck of the shade, and then the set-screws upon the inside turned to bear against the shade, and so as to secure the arms and shade together. 5 5

By this construction the shade-ring is dispensed with, and a serviceable, neat, and extremely cheap hanging lamp is produced.

I do not claim, broadly, in a hanging lamp,

a frame constructed to extend over the upper edge ofthe shade, with fastening devices there in to secure the shade, as such, I am aware, is not new. 7

I claim- In a hanging lamp, the combination, with'a shade, of a lamp-frame extending up within the shade, the upper ends of the said frame being turned outward, downward, and inward to form hooked projections to b, and screws passing through the frame upon the inside opposed to the said turned-in ends of the frame, the said turned-in ends adapted to grasp the neck of the shade, and the said screws adapted to bear upon the inside of the shade, substantially as described.

EMIL FISHER.

Witnesses:

O. D. NEWBURY, W. J ROBINSON. 

